Ouch! That seems like a horribly inefficient way to do it! Perhaps I will shut off the copy protection until it's implemented better.
On Feb 26, 11:03 pm, strazzere <str...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just a little more depth on it... > > If you look at what the copy protection is doing - it dumps your > normal .apk to /data/app-private then puts a .zip in /data/app > > The .apk is your originally signed one - and the .zip is you manifest, > resources and res folder. So that res folder basically doubles your > size since it contacts copies of all of the resources you also contain > in your .apk > > -Tim > > On Feb 26, 11:23 pm, Jean-Baptiste Queru <j...@android.com> wrote: > > > copy-protection doubles the amount of size needed to store the app on > > the device indeed. > > > JBQ > > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Robert Green <rbgrn....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > For Wuzzle, the signed trial APK is 878KB and the signed full game APK > > > is 934KB. I do have copy protection turned on for both and it did say > > > it would increase the space needed. I figured that meant it would add > > > an extra 10KB or something reasonable. They are listed on the market > > > as being 1.71MB and 1.82MB respectively. I didn't think it would > > > literally double the app size! > > > > My other game, Light Racer has a signed APK of 288KB and is posted > > > with no copy protection. It is listed on the market as 289KB, which > > > is correct. > > > > Has anyone else noticed this? > > > -- > > Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru > > Android Engineer, Google. > > > Please don't contact me directly. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
